Third Digital Livelihood Training for Young Women

The Centre for Information Technology and Development (CITAD) is running the third batch of the Digital Livelihood Project for Young Women in Kano.

The aim of the project is to build the capacity of female digital entrepreneurs through training and business development clinics. Successful participants can also access internship opportunities through CITAD.

The training consists of five components as follows:

Digital Skills Training: This will be a 40 hour training (to be given in 10 days)to equip participants to become computer literate so that they can use their skills to enhance their life include use it to advance their education career, develop a vocational trade or profession and lead to setting up of small scale business

Digital Entrepreneurship: This will be a 10-day non-residential training on certain digital trade skills that they can use to set up small scale business. The proposed line skills under here include:

Mobile apps development

Publishing Skills

Website design and deployment

Film and video editing

Computer and mobile device repairs and maintenance

Photography

Infographics and data mining

Business Skill Training: This is to introduce them on how to set up small scale business include meeting registration requirements, sales and marketing, basic business accounting, etc: it will last for 4 day.

Business Support Clinics/Mentoring: this is linkage forum bringing business development support organizations such as SMEDAN, CBN, Bank of Industry (BOI), etc to address the beneficiaries and provide them with processes and procedure of how they could access these support initiatives.

E-Mentoring: At the end of the programme, participants will be paired with accomplished and successful entrepreneurs and business managers to support them using online mentoring as they set about establishing their own small scale businesses.

NOTE: Participants are responsible for their transportation. However, CITAD will support successful participants through business registration and other business set up support.

Interested women who meet the following requirements are invited to apply:

Must have completed secondary school education

Must be resident in Kano

Must be of the age bracket 18-30 years old

Must be prepared to attend training sessions daily for a week.

Applicants are required to submit an enterprise idea or plan that they will want to set up at the end of the training.

Application forms will be available online from June 19 2018 at www.citad.org. Forms should be filled and submitted online.

Shortlisted candidates will be invited for screening during which they will be required to present the following supporting documents:

WAEC/NECO/ NABTEB Certificate or statement of result

Birth certificate or age declaration

A one page business pitch (idea or plan)

Acceptance of application closes on July 3, 2018. For more information, contact info@citad.org or call 08035558653. Please note that all aspects of the training are FREE. CLICK HERE TO APPLY